- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldOne of the men accused of murdering poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has said he believes the former KGB officer might have killed himself accidentally after handling radioactive material.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsA framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be reached by the end of June, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday. "What has been done so far does not guarantee a...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from BBC News - WorldAn Indian court jails the founder of Satyam Computers and nine others for seven years in one of the country's biggest corporate scandals.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CNN.comThere is a Persian proverb that says: "A good year is determined by its spring."
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Al Jazeera AmericaRebel advance brings them closer to countrys chief economic asset, the Belhaf gas production and export facility
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldA white South Carolina police officer has been dismissed from his job after being charged with murder for shooting an apparently unarmed black man in the back as he fled, the latest death that has brought protesters out to decry racism a...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
Feidin Santana, the man who recorded the shooting death of South Carolina resident Walter Scott, joins Morning Joe with his attorney Todd Rutherford to discuss what he saw. - Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertyIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on April 9 that he neither agrees nor disagrees with a framework deal reached with global powers on Tehran's nuclear program.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldDzokhar Tsarnaev was yesterday found guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer four days later.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
Morning headlines: Rand Paul's first official day on the campaign trail, OK set to ban abortion procedure, fired Ferguson court clerk speaks about racist email. - Thursday, April 9, 2015 from BBC News - WorldA maximum field of 40 runners has been named for Saturday's Grand National, with AP McCoy set to ride favourite Shutthefrontdoor.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldEight years into Pakistan's democratic transition, violence against women is still endemic, a new ICG report found. The group's Samina Ahmed talks about why biased attitudes towards women lie at the heart of the problem.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldAs if being short was not already enough of a disadvantage, scientists have now confirmed it increases the risk of heart disease.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldWales: The oldest McDonald’s employee in Europe is celebrating his 90th birthday with a party at the restaurant where he works, saying he has no plans to retire just yet.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsThe White House statement followed a transgender teen's suicide after being forced to attend conversion therapy.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CNN.comA video shows Officer Michael Slager, who is white, shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott eight times as Scott has his back to him and is running away.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Al Jazeera EnglishTunisia's tourism industry stresses that the country is still safe to visit.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsA man is arrested after three people - a judge, lawyer and defendant - are killed at the Palace of Justice in Milan.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The Business InsiderThe Apple Watch is the only Apple product I've even been super-interested in. The thing is going on sale on Friday and the advance reviews are in. They're mixed. Not too surprising, given that this is the first generation of a new piece ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The Business InsiderVia Dave Lutz at JonesTrading, here's a quick guide to what traders are talking about this morning. Good Morning! US Futures are lower this AM, as money flows into the Treasury market early. European markets, however, are all highe...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comMore rain and hail are on the way to the Chicago area Thursday as additional severe storms that could produce damaging winds, possibly some tornadoes move through the Midwest.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News: CBSnews.comAt least 3 reportedly killed as apparent plaintiff in bankruptcy case pulls out a gun and then tries to escape on a motorcycle
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsSweden will send up to 120 troops to northern Iraq to train Iraqi and Kurdish fighters as part of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group, foreign minister Margot Wallstroem said Thursday. "In the first stage 35 soldiers wil...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CNN.comResponding to a petition begun when a transgender teenager died from suicide after being subjected to therapy meant to alter her gender identity, the White House announced on Wednesday it supports banning the so-called conversion practices.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalIsraeli embassy: Israeli found killed in Berlin had sought help to get plane ticket home
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldIranian leaders have expressed skepticism about whether an agreement with six major powers over its nuclear program will ever be implemented. This follows a tentative deal reached in Switzerland last week.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsThe "unsettling" thriller will be back for a 10-part series next year but it is not known who will be cast in the show.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News From SFGateMOSCOW (AP) — In a sign of a blossoming friendship, Russian President Vladimir Putin has given visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras an ancient Greek icon stolen by Nazis during the German occupation of Greece as the two countries...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalAfghan official: Gunmen storm government office in northern city, kill policeman
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesFrom the witness speaking out in the S.C. cop-involved shooting to the guilty verdict in the Boston bombing trial, see the stories we're following.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News From SFGateTOKYO (AP) — The last time the United States tried the military option on North Korea, more than a million died, a hostile and unexpectedly resilient adversary emerged and instead of regime change it got three generations of the Kim fami...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertyThe desperate humanitarian situation in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus is becoming even worse, activists, aid workers, Yarmouk residents, and officials have warned.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comWalgreens plans to close about 200 U.S. stores as the nation's largest drugstore chain expands on a $1 billion cost-reduction plan it announced last August.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World from NewserPresident Obama arrived in Jamaica last night, and his first stop was the Bob Marley museum, the BBC reports. Obama is the first US president to visit Jamaica since Ronald Reagan did so in 1982, and he's apparently a big Marley fan: Duri...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from WND » World
Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann had some harsh words for the looming nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, labeling it a harbinger of World War III and chastising President Obama for even considering it. “This lit... - Thursday, April 9, 2015 from WSJ Live VideoFinancial advisor Robert Balentine tells Jack Otter how he uses ETFs to invest in Japan, India, and Europe, where stocks are trading at much lower valuations than they are in the U.S.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News: CBSnews.comBritish Muslim comic weighs in as British police turn to YouTube for help getting that word out
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from BBC News - WorldEd Miliband says Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has "demeaned himself and... his office" by calling the Labour leader a backstabber.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesFeidin Santana said there was a struggle between the unarmed man and the officer, but the officer had control of the situation before opening fire.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldMale long-distance runners are not only fitter than most — they may also find it easier to attract women, researchers have said.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Newstrack News - UPI.comVeronica Linares LOS ANGELES, April 9 (UPI) -- Rachael Leigh Cook and her husband, actor Daniel Gillies, welcomed their second child, a boy, on April 4 in Los Angeles.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CNN.comMonty Python in a movie?
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comA mother is facing criminal charges after police say her 8-year-old son was accidentally shot while playing with a gun, police said.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from mirror - World newsSome of the girls Yuhei Takashima slept with are alleged to have been as young as 14 while the oldest was 70
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News & AnalysisRival Rory McIlroy will deliver tough challenges for Tiger Woods -- and not just on the greens and fairways of Augusta, Georgia.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CNN.comA former school principal in Japan says he paid for sex with more than 12,000 women -- some of them girls as young as 14 -- during repeated visits to the Philippines over more than a quarter of a century, according to police.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
Does Rand Paul believe women impregnated by a rapist should have to take the pregnancy to term? On his first day as a presidential candidate, he wouldn't say. - Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertySmoke was seen rising from buildings in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif on April 9 after three gunmen stormed the regional prosecutor's office. Police said the armed men exchanged fire with security forces, killing three polic...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World - latimes.comFor 12 years, Obaidullah's family has watched the release of more than 200 Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from | News | New York PostTEHRAN, Iran — Ian’s president on Thursday warned Saudi Arabia and its allies that their airstrikes’ campaign in Yemen is a “mistake” and called for a halt to the strikes...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Voice of AmericaTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Egypt should free ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi from jail and lift death sentences against his supporters before Ankara could consider an improvement in relations with Cairo. Ties bet...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comA relative of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says she remains convinced he had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombing, arguing that neither he nor his now-dead elder brother had any reason to carry out the terrorist attack. … Click to C...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: WorldMILAN - A gunman opened fire in a Milan courtroom on Thursday, killing a judge and as many as two other people before being captured as he tried to flee on a motorbike, news reports and Italy's interior minister said. Witnesses reported ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The WeekIf given the choice between business owners with religious convictions and LGBT customers, 54 percent of Americans side with the gays and lesbians, according to a Reuters /Ipsos poll released Thursday. Only 28 percent said business shoul...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The WeekIn this week's podcast we step out of our comfort zone and live the romanticized dream of a writer in Paris, offer kindness in the most unlikely of places, search for the spirit of tourist-choked Maine, and find a unique way to experienc...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: WorldKIEV, Ukraine - Amnesty International said Thursday that it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law. The human rig...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The WeekConservatives are clear on one point these days: Government coercion is bad. So when Sally Kohn at Talking Points Memo wrote an unfortunately muddled post arguing that statutes outlawing discrimination against LGBT people are not inheren...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comAmnesty International said Thursday that it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law. … Click to Continue &ra...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Voice of AmericaOpening a three-day trip to the Caribbean and Central America, President Barack Obama hopes to capitalize on mutual needs in the face of expanding Chinese influence and weakening power by Venezuela, once the energy juggernaut of the Amer...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSAt least one judge was shot and killed Thursday morning by the gunman, who was in the courthouse for a bankruptcy proceeding.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from RealClearWorldSamuel Silva, America Economia SANTIAGO DE CHILE - It may be difficult to blame the United States for the way it runs its domestic affairs, but it's equally difficult to defend its foreign policy choices. For example, Washington is large...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Macleans.ca » World"They make both police and civilians treat each other better, because they know they are being recorded." The post Video of fatal police shooting rekindles body camera debate appeared first on Macleans.ca .
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldA man believed to be a defendant in a bankruptcy case on Thursday shot “at least one person dead” in a Milan court, according to a prosecutor cited by Italian media. The sound of shots sparked panic, with lawyers fleeing the ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comSaudi Arabian aviation authorities say they prevented an Iranian plane carrying 260 religious pilgrims from entering the kingdom's airspace because the aircraft lacked appropriate permissions. … Click to Continue »
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- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe heir to the British throne and his consort, Camilla, are celebrating 10 years of marriage — a decade in which Camilla's public image has gone from aristocratic home-wrecker to admired addition to the royal family. … Click...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from InternationalSenate Democratic support is softening for a measure empowering Congress to review an Iran nuclear deal amid strong White House opposition.Supporters had touted the backing of 66 senators, just one short of the two-thirds needed to overr...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comA new group of international cybercrime fighters claimed one of its first kills Thursday, pulling the plug on malicious servers that hijacked at least 12,000 machines, most of them in the United States. … Click to Continue »
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The WeekThe Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a 1.8-million-square-foot, glass-paneled building in midtown Manhattan, was labeled in 2009 as one of the city's deadliest buildings for birds, according to the New York Audubon Society. Birds, ofte...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Worldcrunch.comOn our Nile cruise down to Abu Simbel , we passed by these locals harvesting sugarcane . I couldn't help but think of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile — and particularly about its 1978 movie adaptation w...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldAsus Zenfone 2 will likely be released in ZE550ML, ZE551ML and ZE500CL variants.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Top News StoriesSC officer who shot man had prior excessive force complaint NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting an unarmed black man in the back was allowed to stay on the force despite ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from RTÉ News - WorldA round-up of Irish and international news stories.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Channel 4 News World FeedItalian police arrest a man believed to have shot and killed a judge and at least one other person in Milan's main court building.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldA new legal definition of what constitutes a family took effect in Nicaragua on Wednesday, drawing ire from gay groups who say it massively impacts their rights. The so-called Family Code, which was first agreed in June 2014, establishes...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Global News : World
A relative of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says she remains convinced he had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombing, arguing that neither he nor his now-dead elder brother had any reason to carry out the terrorist attack. - Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comA gunman opened fire in a Milan courtroom on Thursday, killing a judge and as many as two other people before being captured as he tried to flee on a motorbike, news reports and Italy's interior minister said. … Click to Continue &...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from TORONTO STAR | NEWS | WORLDThe gunman was reportedly caught as he tried to leave the scene on a motorcycle.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsCarla Harris launches the 2015 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs with a keynote address following a welcome message by James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council o...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldEscapee says Boko Haram fighters must be shown that what they are doing is wrong.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Philly.com National/World NewsNORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - An eyewitness whose cellphone video put a South Carolina police officer in jail on a murder charge said Wednesday that he did not hear the white officer give any warning before he fired eight times at the ba...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Macleans.ca » World"We will not sign any agreement, unless all economic sanctions are totally lifted on the first day of the implementation of the deal." The post Iran wants all sanctions lifted immediately after nuke deal appeared first on Macleans.ca .
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesBy 1708 the Medici grand ducal “spezieria,” or pharmacy, had grown into a complex of eleven rooms. It included a medical laboratory for the production of alchemical medicines, a pharmacy for the production of herbals, syrups and powders,...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Worldcrunch.comH Efimerida ton Sintakton , April 9, 2015 Before Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Wednesday, European commentators warned that Greece could become Russia'...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Jewish Telegraphic Agency » WorldUnlike in the United States, where many Reform rabbis perform interfaith marriages, British Reform rabbis will only marry couples if both partners are Jewish.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comIndonesian prosecutors insisted Thursday they have shown enough evidence that an American couple deliberately plotted to kill the woman's mother while vacationing on Bali and should be found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldSony starts rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Xperia Z2 and Z2 tablet.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from RealClearWorldRoger Noriega, RealClearWorld U.S. President Barack Obama has clearly noticed that many in Latin America and the Caribbean have an uncanny affinity for the myth of the Cuban revolution. What he has yet to realize, however, is that the va...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSOfficials say Philippine troops, backed by attack helicopters and artillery fire, battled with at least 250 Abu Sayyaf militants in the country's restive south, leaving two soldiers and six militants dead.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comHackers claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group seized control of a global French television network, simultaneously blacking out 11 channels and taking over the network's website and social media accounts. The attack appeared to ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Metro » World | Metro UK
Francis Bakvis couldn't believe what he saw in his garden. - Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Voice of AmericaJapan's atomic regulator is “very close” to finishing its review of two reactors in southern Japan that are slated to be the first to restart under new rules introduced since the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one of its commissioners told ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from NewsweekIt was before dawn at Observation Post Mest-Malak, a U.S. Army outpost surrounded by Taliban-controlled villages in eastern Afghanistan, when the men in Blackfoot Company 2nd Platoon first noticed that Bowe Bergdahl was missing. An Army ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Daily DotYou'll never guess what 'Star Wars' character Oscar Isaac cosplayed as in his youth.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Voice of AmericaThe witness who recorded the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, last week said he initially considered erasing the video from his cell phone. Feidin Santana told NBC News...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comIran's top leader on Thursday stopped short of giving his endorsement to the framework nuclear deal struck last week between Teheran and world powers, while the country's president warned separately that Tehran's approval of a final deal...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comIran's president on Thursday warned Saudi Arabia and its allies that their airstrikes' campaign in Yemen is a "mistake" and called for a halt to the strikes targeting the Iran-backed Shiite rebels who have seized much of the im...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldUnited Arab Emirates and France sign memorandum for partnership in space.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from VICE NewsDays before the US launched airstrikes on Tikrit in late March, VICE News traveled to the front lines of the northern Iraqi city, where Iraqi government forces and volunteer militiamen are continuing to battle the so-called Islamic State...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Voice of AmericaGreece's government has given the order to repay a roughly 450 million euro ($485-million) loan installment to the International Monetary Fund due Thursday — a debt Athens had insisted it will honor despite being severely cash-strapped. ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsStruggling state-run carrier Air India has grounded two of its pilots after a fight erupted between the pair just before takeoff, reports said Monday.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from TODAYS ZAMANShelling and sporadic clashes struck a Palestinian refugee camp under attack by hard-line extremists in the Syrian capital on Monday, a situation that a UN official described as “beyond inhumane.” Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from UN News Centre - Top StoriesThe Joint African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has confirmed the dropping of 10 bombs which led to the killing of 14 civilians and the wounding of 18 others in Rowata, Central Darfur, on 1 April.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- Fresh Saudi-led airstrikes on Monday killed five members of a family in the West of the Yemeni capital.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Anadolu Ajansı Güncel HaberlerAttacks are 'unacceptable and must not be permitted by the international community,' says State Dept.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Khaleej Times : International NewsDC Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management spokeswoman Robyn Johnson says about 8,000 customers in Washington were affected Tuesday.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Yemeni politician called on the people of Yemen to prepare themselves for giving a crushing response to the Saudi aggressors and their allies.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Arutz Sheva News - Global AgendaCounter-terrorism police investigating Abdul Hadi Arwani's murder despite opposition to Syrian regime, family dismisses this as factor.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Khaleej Times : International NewsViqaruddin and his associates were involved in a series of attacks on cops and the killing of a police constable in Hyderabad in 2009.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from UN News Centre - Top StoriesThe international community needs a financial framework capable of confronting the multifaceted crises of the day in a predictable and effective manner if it is to delineate a successful post-2015 sustainable development agenda, United N...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from TODAYS ZAMANUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday publicly lifted his objections to a referendum that could give more powers to the restive regions engulfed in more than a year of warfare, reversing his government's previous position. Russi...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Daily Star >> News >> WorldCzech President Milos Zeman and the U.S. ambassador to Prague are in a rare public dispute over Zeman's decision to attend a Russian military parade
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from World RSS feed - The NationalPlaying out on the rooftop of a makeshift hospital for Syrian refugees in Amman, the new production aims to highlight the plight of those who have escaped Syria’s devastating civil war — and those left behind.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Arutz Sheva News - Global AgendaPart of US-led coalition against ISIS since November, Canada only recently approved larger role in conflict, including strikes in Syria.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from UN News Centre - Top StoriesAround 4,500 people have recently sought shelter on the premises of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in Malakal, Upper Nile state, the spokesperson for the Secretary-General said during a press briefing at Headquarters today.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from TODAYS ZAMANExplosions shook the suburbs of the Yemeni port city of Aden on Monday as residents reported a foreign warship shelling Houthi positions on the outskirts of the city. Street fighting and heavy shelling has for several days torn through t...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from WorldMon, 2015-04-06 12:38 BEIRUT: Shelling and sporadic clashes struck a Palestinian refugee camp under attack by Islamic extremists in the Syrian capital Monday, a situation...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- Russia is consistently holding talks with Saudi Arabia about taking the situation in Yemen out of the dimension of using force, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani agreed on joint military operations to take the strategic city of Mosul, capital of the Iraqi Nineveh province, back from ISIL control.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from TODAYS ZAMANSaudi Arabia has asked Pakistan for military aircraft, warships and soldiers, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Monday, at the start of a parliamentary debate on whether Pakistan should get involved in a Saudi-led campaign ...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Arutz Sheva News - Global AgendaAt least 3,000 French nationals estimated to be involved with Islamist networks, up 24% since November 2014.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Arutz Sheva News - Global AgendaJean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac, one of the first to condemn the Holocaust and man who wrote instructions for French during D-Day, was 98.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from UN News Centre - Top StoriesWith global crises on the rise, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that its new registration system will enable it to build a global roster of foreign medical response teams ready to deploy in response to ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- Discussion of an initiative on a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine is impossible without the participation of Donetsk and Luhansk, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Top Stories | i24news - See beyondHamas forces have in the past cracked down hard on Salafist groups in the coastal enclave
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- Senior member of the popular Ansarullah movement Zeifollah al-Shami underlined the movement's respect for other Yemeni political parties.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Daily Star >> News >> WorldThe controversial leader of Ukraine's ultra-nationalist Pravy Sektor paramilitary group, which is fighting pro-Russian rebels alongside government troops, was made an army advisor as Kiev seeks to tighten its control over volunteer fighters
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from World RSS feed - The NationalDuring his time Down Under, Prince Harry will be embedded with Australian army units and regiments in Sydney, Darwin and Perth.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the Baghdad government would work with Kurdish authorities to liberate the Northern Province of Nineveh from ISIL terrorists.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from UN News Centre - Top StoriesThe deteriorating health situation for internally displaced and others impacted by the conflict in Ukraine has drawn the serious concern of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), a UN spokesperson ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Anadolu Ajansı Güncel HaberlerCourt blocks access to social media sites which defied court order to remove photos of slain prosecutor held hostage last week.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Anadolu Ajansı Güncel HaberlerIraqi PM Haider al-Abadi and Kurdish President Massoud Barzani agree to form joint committee for an operation to free Mosul from Daesh.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Anadolu Ajansı Güncel HaberlerUNRWA says lives of civilians in Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria have never been more profoundly threatened.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Khaleej Times : International NewsChief of the Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif has said that parliament would decide the role of Pakistan in the conflict in Yemen.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Ya Libnan » » World NewsIslamist Boko Haram militants disguised as preachers killed at least 24 people and wounded several others in an attack near a mosque in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, a military source and witness said on Monday. The attackers ar...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from UN News Centre - Top StoriesThe United Nations expert on the human rights of internally displaced persons today urged the international community “to prepare for massive displacement and humanitarian crisis as conflict torn Yemen further descends into chaos and civ...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Khaleej Times : International NewsThe regulator suggested existing emergency numbers such as 100, 101, 102 and 108 can be retained as secondary numbers.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from Arutz Sheva News - Global AgendaAn Iranian official at the UN is demanding a timetable for the world's nuclear powers to disarm.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Top Stories | i24news - See beyondNetanyahu continues crucade against Lausanne framework agreement
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - WorldNEW YORK (AP) " A pastor who played a key role in the American civil rights movement has died.The Progressive National Baptist Convention says the Rev. Gardner Taylor died Sunday. He was 96 and lived in North Carolina.Taylor was...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Daily Star >> News >> WorldGreece confirms it will make a 460 million euro ($505 million) debt payment to the International Monetary Fund this week as it seeks to allay concerns over the country's solvency
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Popular Standard Digital News FeedsIslamist Boko Haram militants disguised as preachers killed at least 24 people and wounded several others in an attack near a mosque in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, a military source and witness said on Monday.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from News24 WorldIslamic State insurgents have blown up an 80-year-old church in Syria's northeastern province of Hassaka, reports say.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from TODAYS ZAMANKenya launched air strikes against hard-line militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people, a military spokesman said on Monday. Warplanes attacked positions of the al-Shabab militant group...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- The Palestinian Health Ministry said more than 560 Palestinian children were killed, and thousands more were injured in the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, and the occupied Jerusalem and West Bank during the last year.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from News24 WorldAl-Qaeda's official Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, has kidnapped 300 Kurdish men in the country's north, a Kurdish official in Syria says.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from News24 WorldThe US government is still intercepting the general public's intimate e-mails, says fugitive intelligence technician Edward Snowden.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Fars News AgencyTEHRAN (FNA)- The Iraqi army continued to target the remaining positions of the ISIL Takfiri group in Salahuddin, and managed to claim the lives of dozens of terrorists across the province, a military source said.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from The Daily Star >> News >> WorldRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday he was "dismayed" that a Saudi-led coalition did not consult the U.N. Security Council prior to carrying out strikes in Yemen and urged negotiations to resolve the crisis.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from The Star Online News HighlightsBOSTON (Reuters) - Dzokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured 264 others, and the jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from TASS: WorldMOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) head Alexander Zakharchenko on Wednesday accused Ukraine of making a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on DPR websites. "Today an attempt was made to dest...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaThe United States has started daily aerial refuelling for warplanes in the Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes in Yemen, the Pentagon has said.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from News RSSIranian President said Tehran won’t sign a final nuclear deal unless economic sanctions against the country are lifted first. The comments contradict Washington’s statement that sanctions would be lifted gradually, subject to Iran compli...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The Hindu - InternationalAt least 24 people were killed on Thursday when a bus veered off the road and rammed into a number of trees in central Bangladesh’s Faridpur district.“The accident took place around 1.15 a....
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - WorldBoston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the death penalty after a jury unanimously convicted him Wednesday of carrying out the worst attack in the United States since the 9/11 hijackings. The jury took a day and a half to find the...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from >The News International - Latest StoriesMQM suspends electioneering for Thursday ...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldMuch-needed aid was trickling into Yemen on Wednesday as rebels fought fresh battles with pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led air campaign set to enter its third week. Washington said it had deepened its involvement in the air wa...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from News RSSRussian paratroopers successfully landed on a drifting block of ice in the Arctic Ocean for the first time in history, Russia's Defense Ministry reported. The troopers also carried freight containers to set up base in direct proximity to...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from WorldUNITED NATIONS - North Korea accused Mexico on Wednesday of illegally detaining one of its ships with some 50 crew and warned it would take "necessary measures" to release the vessel, which United Nations sanctions monitors say belongs t...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from MACAU DAILY TIMES » WorldMacau Daily Times feed As tons of desperately needed medical supplies await clearance to be flown into Yemen, aid workers warned yesterday of an unfolding humanitarian crisis, saying at least 560 people, including dozens of children, hav...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - WorldWhen hundreds of Islamic State militants muscled into the Yarmouk refugee camp last week and planted their black flags amid the charred, blown-out buildings, it was the latest trial for the remaining Palestinians who for two years have e...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - WorldIraq's prime minister said Wednesday that the country's "next battle" is to retake Anbar province from the Islamic State jihadist group, his most direct statement yet on Baghdad's target after Tikrit. "Our next stand and battle will be h...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaAmerica’s defence secretary said on Wednesday that an al-Qaida branch is making “great gains” on the ground amid the chaos in Yemen, and that the US will have to rethink how it prevents the group from launching attacks in the West.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalPlummeting oil prices mean that Saudi Arabia - for the first time in 15 years - will have to post a deficit and enter the debt market, according to a leading financial research firm.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldIran sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, state media reported, establishing a military presence off the coast of Yemen where Saudi Arabia is leading a bombing campaign to oust the Iran-allied Houthi movement. The destroye...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Inquirer News » WorldHere's a look at some of the most compelling moments in the government's case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted Wednesday of all 30 federal counts against him:
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from News RSSDozens of Canadian students protesting budget cuts barricaded themselves overnight inside a Montreal university following a police intervention that resulted in over 20 arrests Wednesday. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaThe fatal shooting of a black man running from a white police officer inflamed the nation's debate over police use of force Wednesday, and the mayor and police chief of South Carolina's third-largest city said they were "sickened" by wha...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from rthk.hk - Instant NewsUS stocks rose as a big Royal Dutch Shell acquisition and a large potential pharma deal offset concerns about earnings season and US monetary policy. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 17,901, up 25 points (0....
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from CCTV AmericaRelations between the U.S. and Cuba have been intertwined from 1960s. Here are key events in U.S.-Cuba relations:
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaNine Pakistani Taliban militants, including the Karachi chief of the banned outfit, were today killed in two separate encounters with security forces here.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaA woman in New York who wrote a blog about motherhood was jailed for 20 years by a judge on Wednesday for murdering her 5-year-old son through salt poisoning so she could use his illness to gain social media attention.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The Hindu - InternationalIndia has been elected to four key subsidiary bodies of the United Nations’ agency on economic and social issues.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from GMA News Online / News / WorldGENEVA - Thirty confirmed cases of Ebola were reported in West Africa in the past week, the smallest number in nearly a year of the worst ever outbreak of the deadly fever, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalUkrainian-born Valentina Lisitsa was primed to perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra this week. But on Monday, she received the news that her performances had been cancelled, a sudden decision wh...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from MACAU DAILY TIMES » WorldMacau Daily Times feed The estate of the late Texas pop star Selena is suing a record label it says owes it money from digital royalties. The lawsuit was filed by Selena Quintanilla’s estate against UMG Recordings in U.S. District Court ...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaUS company Burger King will pay the wedding expenses for a young Illinois couple named Joel Burger and Ashley King, whose children will carry forward in their last names the “lineage” of the multinational fast-food chain, media reported.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia World NewsCanadian health officials broadened a quarantine around two turkey farms to nine on Wednesday, after H5 bird flu was detected in one of them.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The Hindu - InternationalDzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a jury that will now decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed or shown mercy.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - WorldIran dispatched a destroyer and another naval ship to waters off Yemen on Wednesday, raising the stakes amid a Saudi-led air campaign targeting Iranian-backed Shiite rebels fighting forces loyal to the country's embattled president. The ...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from News RSSPro-Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) hackers attacked French television network TV5Monde on Wednesday evening, taking hostage the broadcast of its TV channels, websites and Facebook page, according to the network. Read Full Artic...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from News RSSTainted water from Fukushima nuclear plant storage may be evaporated or stored underground instead of following earlier plans to release it into the ocean. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from MACAU DAILY TIMES » WorldMacau Daily Times feed The president of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, has been acquitted of stealing £490 from a branch of Barclays bank last October. Supporters in the public gallery at the Old Bailey in London clapped and cheered as ...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from The Hindu - InternationalAppreciating Pakistan’s gesture, Foreign Secretary Jaishankar said the crisis like in Yemen provides an opportunity for countries to work together.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - WorldThieves may have got away with a record haul of diamonds after a brazen heist in London's diamond district netted an estimated £200 million worth ($300 million) of gems, media reported Wednesday. Burglars broke into a vault at a safe dep...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalAs part of its soon-to-be-released cyber strategy, the United States Navy will focus on building up its capacity to conduct cyber attacks from anywhere around the world.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - WorldDemocratic senators are intent on changing a bill that would give Congress a say in an emerging nuclear deal with Iran — tweaks that could make it more palatable to President Barack Obama, who called two key senators on Wednesday to lobb...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from >The News International - Latest StoriesOne dead, 3 wounded in Saudi-Pakistan military training ...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalOne of the most iconic figures of the US Civil Rights Movement replace seventh president Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaAt least 24 people were killed on Thursday when a bus veered off the road and rammed into a number of trees in central Bangladesh's Faridpur district.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaBritain’s PM David Cameron has been skewered in the middle of a tense election campaign — for eating a hot dog with a knife and fork.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from TASS: WorldMOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Imposition of sanctions does not help solve problems but only makes the situation around Ukraine worse, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday. "China has stuck to an objective and unbiased position on t...
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from The Star Online News HighlightsBOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's conviction on Wednesday came as a relief to residents of the city, though many expressed mixed feelings over whether the 21-year-old should be put to death for his crimes.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaNine Pakistani Taliban militants, including the Karachi chief of the banned outfit, were today killed in two separate encounters with security forces here.
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaUnder the proposed plea bargain agreement, the accused will get to admit their guilt without going through a trial in exchange for lesser punishment.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from >The News International - Latest StoriesUS begins aerial refueling for Saudi-led air war ...
- Thursday, April 9, 2015 from The Hindu - InternationalThe shooting in North Charleston came amid an ongoing nationwide debate over issues of trust between law enforcement and minority communities.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from philstar.com - WorldWASHINGTON - Billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that he is donating an additional $30 million to a Sierra Club initiative working to reduce th
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaCanadian armed forces conducted their first airstrike in Syria since the government expanded the scope of its military mission against Islamic State last month, Canada's Defence Department said on Wednesday.
